HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080608970
Bassin de Cotahuasi Canyon
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 2 administrative regions : Condesuyos, La Unión
Sub-basin area
465,8km²
Upstream area
2 585,9km²
Discharge
36,53m³/s
Mean elev.
4 103m
Administrative coverage
Species present
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
5,8°C
Annual rain
626mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,43
Runoff
237mm/an
PET
1 168mm
AET
520mm
Mean slope
20,1°
Water table
848cm
Forest
32%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)